Background
Archibald, Raymond Clare was born on October 7, 1875 in Colchester County, Nova Scoti, Canada. Son of Abram Newcomb and Mary (Mellish) Archibald.
Archibald, Raymond Clare was born on October 7, 1875 in Colchester County, Nova Scoti, Canada. Son of Abram Newcomb and Mary (Mellish) Archibald.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Mount Allison College, North.B., 1894, Doctor of Laws, 1923. Harvard, 1895-1898; Bachelor of Arts, 1896, Master of Arts, 1897. University of Berlin, 1898-1899.
University of Strassburg, 1899-1900, Doctor of Philosophy, 1900.
Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1909-1910. University of Rome, 1922.
Honorary doctor, University of Padua, 1922. Unmarried.
Professor mathematics, librarian, head violin department Mount Allison Ladies’ College, Sackville, North.B., 1900-1907. Professor mathematics Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scoti, 1907-1908. Instructor mathematics, 1908-1911, assistant professor, 1911-1917, associate professor 1917-1923, professor 1923-1943.
Professor emeritus since 1943, Brown University.
Lecturer University of California, 1924, Harvard, 1931, Columbia, 1939-1940. Delaware to congress university of British Empire, London, 1912.
Delegate to celebration 700th anniversary of founding University of Padua, 1922. Representative for United States and Canada of Euler communications of Swiss Society of Naturalists, 1922-1939.
Delegate to opening of Gennadius Library (Athens), 1926.
Member American section International Mathematics Union (member International Committee on Bibliography 1924-1928).
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (secretary section A, 1925-1927, vice-president and chairman 1928. Member Division of Physical Sciences, National Research Council, 1928-1931, 1940-1943 and 1944-1947, chairman International Committee on Mathematics Tables and Other Aids to Computation, 1939-1950. Member Polish Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association (England), Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard Chapter).
Member Sigma Xi, London Mathematics Society, Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, Edinburgh Mathematics Society, Unione Matematica Italiana, American Mathematics Society (council, 1918-1941.